TMX presentation
Tonight I had to make my presentation for TMX from home as I was hit by manflu! My virtual #TMX presentation My presentation was about the Read for Joy wiki, the World map of Books and my general views...
View ArticleGrowing Greener Futures Conference Booklist
Just before I was lucky enough to attend the Growing Greener Futures Conference in Stockton which was organised by Martin Waller. I would advise people to read Martin’s blog post on the day for further...
View ArticleFilms to support environmental themes
Yesterday I posted a blog giving a lengthy list of books I recommended during my “How to make Book Soup” session and as promised I am now following it up with the list of videos which I gave to the...
View ArticleAuthors to know
Today I worked with another group of teachers about firing up the teaching of reading. Here are some of my musings on the matter. Many of you may have read the post ‘Promoting Reading’ which includes...
View ArticleMusic to support environmental themes.
This is my final blog post to support my presentation at the Growing Greener Futures conference which was titled “How to make Book Soup”. I have already listed books and short film clips which could...
View ArticleSpace the final frontier
CC Malenkov in Exile I was speaking at a CPD session and chatted with a teacher about her forthcoming topic which she was calling “Space – the final frontier” which she was going to work on with her...
View ArticleBook trust cuts
In the last twenty four hours the government has announced that they will no longer be funding the charity Booktrust for its bookgifting schemes which promote reading by providing free books to...
View Article2011
A Happy New Year to all of my regular visitors and any newcomers to my blog. It will be a year which, I suspect, will see a change in the style and tone of my postings. So here we are into the second...
View ArticleUKEDCHAT
On Thursday 6th January I will be hosting the first #UKEDCHAT discussion of 2011. I asked Colin Hill (@Colport) if it would be acceptable to forego the traditional poll and set a question to be...
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